In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.
Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.
After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.
The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band.
We worked as a team... I was one of the band.
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.
I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.